Clustering is a class of Machine Learning Algorithms that looks to determine for clusters that represent similarity between groups of related data they each hold. While it is technically an Unsupervised type algorithm, in that it does not predict for a target variable, its application results in taking data that you might hypothesize has clusters that can categorize groups of related data, and forming clusters that represent data that have similarities. Thus, the effect of Clustering Algorithms could be viewed with the same effect as that of Classification Algorithms (a class type Supervised Algorithm). There are of course a number of type clustering algorithms, one being the K-Means Clustering Algorithm. The algorithm is shown as below.

You already know that machine learning is essentially a form of data analytics, but where did it come from and how has it evolved to become what it is today? In the past couple of decades, we have seen a rapid expansion and evolution of information technology. In 1995, data storage cost around 1000/GB; by 2014 that cost had plummeted to 0.03/GB (2). With access to larger and larger data sets, data scientists have made major advances in neural networks, which have led to better accuracy in modeling and analytics. As we mentioned earlier, the combination of data and analytics opens up unique opportunities for businesses.

One of the biggest challenges in providing relief to people living in poverty is locating them. The availability of accurate and reliable information on the location of impoverished zones is surprisingly lacking for much of the world, particularly on the African continent. Aid groups and other international organizations often fill in the gaps with door-to-door surveys, but these can be expensive and time-consuming to conduct. In the current issue of Science, Stanford researchers propose an accurate way to identify poverty in areas previously void of valuable survey information. The researchers used machine learning - the science of designing computer algorithms that learn from data - to extract information about poverty from high-resolution satellite imagery.

One of the speakers was Perry Timms, Founder & Director of PTHR. In this blog post, Perry explains about what robotics, automation, machine learning and AI means for the world of work, jobs and human endeavours. There is a certain technophobia present in HR. Often HR professionals do not get the technology that's being used. Being tech savvy nowadays means more than having a self-service cloud-based HR system.

The global market for intelligent machines is set to more than triple to 153 billion by 2020, says Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch, which has pinpointed companies particularly poised to ride the robotics wave. "Robots and AI are becoming an integral part of our daily lives as providers of labor, mobility, safety, convenience, and entertainment," strategists in London led by Beijia Ma wrote in a note dated Nov. 3. "Demographics, energy efficiency, productivity, urbanization, and wage inflation suggest long-term sustained growth." Bank of America expects robots to be performing 45% of manufacturing tasks by 2025, versus 10 percent today. Driven by China, 2014 was the third consecutive year for record sales of robots worldwide -- a jump of 29 percent, BofA said.

Visualise and explore the work of 44,579 superstar Researchers from 8,437 Research Institutions in 118 countries on every sport in the Olympics 2016 Research Dashboard by wizdom.ai, the world's largest research knowledge graph powered by big data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. With all eyes set on the Rio Olympics 2016, the world witnesses the greatest display of human strength, endurance, dexterity and performance by participants from across the globe. Everyday over the course of the two weeks, over 11,400 athletes compete for the gold medal in their game. They have undertaken intensive training for months and years to reach the epitome of physical fitness and to optimise their performance, making every millisecond count. Backing the Olympians that make it to the podium in every field, all along through their training there are thousands of researchers around the world who have extensively studied the games to raise the bar for human performance.

Machine learning has readily improved the way we interact with the internet. One such example would be the spam filter which readily separates unwanted emails from an expansive list of received snippets. However, it is quite intriguing to understand the modus operandi involved in the functioning of these spam filters as segregating mails based on the user ID isn't a plausible option. Moreover, most spams are directed from legit email IDs which are in turn hacked by a third party phishing body. Therefore, the only way to differentiate would be the email content which can be translated beforehand using Machine Learning.

An enormous selling point of cloud software, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and other new technology is that it removes "friction" from business. But as it turns out, much like with sex, the economy isn't that great if you take away all the friction. This is why the best news out of our house of horrors presidential campaign might be that both candidates pledged to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into infrastructure projects. A good way to add friction to our hyper-fast software-driven economy would be to invest in painfully slow, physical, local, wasteful infrastructure, like a nice bridge or sewer. "If some parts of our society are going to speed up," tech philosopher Stewart Brand wrote in The Clock of the Long Now, "then other parts are going to have to slow way down, just to keep balance."

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